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2002

Antitrust and Trade Regulation

UIC John Marshall Journal of Information Technology & Privacy Law

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Vietnam’S Antitrust Legislation And Subscription To E-Asean: An End To The Bamboo Firewall Over Internet Regulation, 20 J. Marshall J. Computer & Info. L. 631 (2002), Robert Neil Wilkey Jan 2002

Vietnam’S Antitrust Legislation And Subscription To E-Asean: An End To The Bamboo Firewall Over Internet Regulation, 20 J. Marshall J. Computer & Info. L. 631 (2002), Robert Neil Wilkey

UIC John Marshall Journal of Information Technology & Privacy Law

As a result of an unprecedented congestion of its Internet and mobile phone communications, many technocrats in Vietnam trace such problems to government policy driven by security concerns. Therefore, the author in this article analyzes Vietnam's regulatory response to Internet technology. The author first discusses the historical background of Vietnam's management and regulatory policy over the Internet. He argues that the policy is essentially the result of socialist assumptions of the state's dominant role in the country's economic growth. Under its 1997 decree regarding Internet usage, the General Director of the General Postal Bureau has the exclusive authority and primary …


A Digital Free Trade Zone And Necessarily-Regulated Self-Governance For Electronic Commerce: The World Trade Organization, International Law, And Classical Liberalism In Cyberspace, 20 J. Marshall J. Computer & Info. L. 595 (2002), Kristi L. Bergemann Jan 2002

A Digital Free Trade Zone And Necessarily-Regulated Self-Governance For Electronic Commerce: The World Trade Organization, International Law, And Classical Liberalism In Cyberspace, 20 J. Marshall J. Computer & Info. L. 595 (2002), Kristi L. Bergemann

UIC John Marshall Journal of Information Technology & Privacy Law

In the absence of a world government, cross border trade is always subject to rules that must be politically negotiated among nations that are sovereign in their own realm but not outside their borders. The author explores the development of an international trade and e-commerce paradigm in two main phases as the Internet superhighway bridges nations together. She argues that the construction of an international trading framework must strike the appropriate balance between institutional order and norms and the human and business realities of free trade and democracy. She further argues that the balance can be achieved by creating an …